Sliding-door fastener.



"E\ P. FARLEYKL'J. L. RIFER.

SLIDING DOOR FASTNER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 18. 1913.

1,145,409. Patented July 6, 1915.

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ERNEST P. FARLEY AND JOHN L. RIFER, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SLIDING-DOOR FASTENEB.

Application filed April 18, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ERNEST P. FARLEY andJOHN L. Rrrnn, citizens of the United States, residing at Portland, inthe county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Sliding-Door Fasteners, of which the following isa specification.

This invention has relation to sliding doors and refers particularly toreleasing doors, such as disclosed in Patent No. 1,056,- 014-,heretofore obtained by us on March 18, 1913.

The object of this invention is to provide, in doors of the abovespecified character, improved means for effecting the looking of thedoor in position, so as to cooperate with the above devices to produce adoor-mechanism of greater utility and reliability than has heretoforebeen obtained. With this object in View we have hereinafter clearly andconcisely described such combinations of devices through the medium ofwhich we aim to produce the above result, and drawings are heretoappended for the purpose of facilitating the perusal of saiddescription.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a car and car doorwith the looking lever in open position. Fig. 2 shows a latch-mechanismfor the operating lever of the device.

The door 1 is mounted to freely operate over the sill 18, and is adaptedto be locked into position by means of a locking lever 10 which issuitably pivoted to the door. The lower end of the lever 10 has anangular offset portion 10 adapted to lie parallel with the outer surfaceof the wall of the car. The sill 18 is supported by means ofsill-brackets 19 of a peculiar shape adapted to guide the door to itsseat to permit of the latching of the angular offset portion 10. Thelower portion 19 of the inner face of said bracket is verticallydirected and so spaced from the door frame as to leave room enough forthe door to slide on the sill. This lower portion extends substantiallyone-third the height of the bracket above the sill. The second portion19 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1915.

Serial No. 762,109.

slants outwardly at a suitable angle, and the top portion 19 thencecontinues in a vertical direction.

The door in seating into locked position, first enters the portion 19,as shown in Fig. 1, then inward and downward past the portion 19 thencedownward in the p0rtion 19" to its seat, when the locking lever 10 canbe latched into position. Vvhen the door is seated, the lever 10, whichis shown as open in Fig. 1, is closed so that the angular ofl'setportion 10 extends beneath the 'sill 18 substantially as shown in Fig.2.

A lug projects from the wall of the car beneath the sill 18 as shown inFig. 2, upon which is pivotally mounted a latch lever 22 having anoperating handle at one side and a latch at the opposite side, which isadapted to hook over the lower end of the angular offset portion 10 andthus latch the lever 10 into closed position. To properly maintain thelatch in engagement with the angular ofiset portion 10 of the lever 10,a suitable coiled spring is mounted between the outer surface of theWall of the car and the inner portion of the handle of said latch-lever.To release said latch-lever from engagement with the angular offsetportion 10 of the lever 10, it is only necessary to press the handle ofthe latch-lever in toward the outer surface of the wall of the caragainst the action of the coiled spring, when the lever 10 can readilybe raised into open position as shown in Fig. 1.

We claim:

In a device of the character described, the combination with a carhaving an angular door sill, of a sliding door seated on said sill, alocking lever pivoted to said door having an angular inturned portionwith an end section at right angles to said inturned portion, saidinturned portion adapted to seat beneath said sill and said right anglesection adapted to vertically depend parallel with and adjacent the wallof the car, a

lug projecting from said car, locking means pivoted in said lug havingan outer hook portion at one end adapted to hook over the lower end ofsaid depending right angular section of said lever to lock the same toits seat, having a manipulating handle at the In testimony whereof, Wehave hereunto opposite end adapted to operate said lockafliXed oursignatures.

ing means to unlock said lever, and spring ERWEST P FARLEY means mountedbetween the Wall of the car JOIiIN L T, and said locking means adaptedto keep the hooked end of said locking means in en- W'Vitnesses:

gagement with said right-angular depend- DANIEL E. LOFGREN,

ing section of said locking lever. EMILY FAGERsTRoM.

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